Prospect Hill

Prospect Hill is a hill located in the Lansdowne Valley of Fredericksburg, Virginia. During the Battle of Fredericksburg in December 1862, Stonewall Jackson's Confederate corps took position on the hill, and fourteen CSA gun pits were dug to accommodate the Confederate artillery. Union general George G. Meade's division assaulted the hill from the woods behind the Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad tracks, and the Union artillery fire killed so many CSA artillery horses that Prospect Hill was nicknamed "Dead Horse Hill." The Union forces achieved a breakthrough, but General Ambrose Burnside neglected to send reinforcements to Meade's division, leading to Meade and his men being driven back in a Confederate counterattack.